Pedestrian dies after being struck by 3 cars on Highway 527

MILL CREEK — A woman crossing a stretch of Highway 527 died Thursday night after being struck by three cars two miles south of Mill Creek, the Washington State Patrol reported.

The accident was reported shortly before 10 p.m.

Troopers identified the woman as Linda Kulich, 56, of Bothell. She was crossing the roadway when she was first struck by a silver Mercedes in a northbound lane of the highway. She was then hit by two cars that followed in the same lane.

She was not in a crosswalk, trooper Mark Francis said.

The drivers — a 39-year-old Everett man, a 75-year-old Mill Creek man and a 32-year-old Mill Creek man — were not injured.